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' E. K. LEGRONE'.

' AWASHING MACHINE.

Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

EMANUEL K. LECRONE, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO ANDREW C. FULTON, OF SAME PLAGE'.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,019, dated April 26, 1887.

Y Application filed November 29, 1886. Serial No. 220,145. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may. concern: cave face of the other sliding block. Curved Beit known that I, EMANUEL K. LEcRoNE, arms 14l are secured to the outer side `of the a citizen of the United States, and a resident convex rubber at the upper edge of the same, of York, in the county of York and State of and the outer ends of these arms are connected 5' Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and by means of a handle, 15, the arms projecting useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; through and rocking in the slots in the end and I do hereby declare that the following is piece of the sudsbox. rllhe ends of the convex a full, clear, and exact description of the inrubber areformed with recesses 16, near the vention, which will enable others skilled in the upper edge, and bolts or trunnions 17 project 6o I@ art to which it appertains to make and use the in these recesses, and have arms 18, pivoted to same, reference being had to the accompanythe other ends of these arms, rocking in trianing drawings, which form a part of this specigular recesses 19 in the sliding blocks of the cation, and in which concave rubber, and having springs 20 at their l Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional ends, which springs are secured to the said 65 l I 5 view of my improved washing-machine. Fig. blocks at the pointed ends of the recesses.

2 is a side view of the machine with one side It will now be seen that when the convex l piece removed; and Fig. 3 is a top view. rubber is reciprocated or rocked by means of Similar numerals of reference indicate corits handle the arms pivoted to its ends near 1 responding parts in all the gures. the upper edge will reciprocate the concave 7o 2O My invention has lrelation to that class of rubber or block, which will slide forward and washing-machines in which the two rubbing back in the end of the suds-box, with its end elements are reciprocated toward eachother; blocks sliding between the bottom and the anditconsistsintheimproved construction and cleats, and the clothes which are placed in the combination of parts of such a "machine, as suds-box between the two rubbers willbe com- 75 hereinafter more fully described and claimed. pressed and pounded between the two rubbers In the accompanying drawings, the numeral and at the same time be rolled as the convex 1 indicates the rectangular suds-box, which is face of the rocking rubber will be drawn upmountcd upon legs 2, and formed with two wardand down o-ver the concave face of the vertical slots, 3, in one end piece, the slots exreciprocating rubber, so that the clothes will 8o tending from the upper edge. be subjected to a pounding as well as a rub- Two blocks, 4, having concave inner edges, bing. The springs at the ends of the arms con- 5, slide with their upper and lower edges benecting the rocking rubber with the recipro` tween the bottom of the suds-box and two eating rubber will allow one end of the recipcleats, 6, secured to the inner sides of the side rocating rubber to yield more than the other 85 pieces of the suds-box at their upper edges, end, in case that the clothes should fill-up and a block, 7, having a concave inner face, 8, more space at one end ofthe rubber than at the formed with corrugations or transverse ribs other, and both springs together will prevent 9, is secured to the blocks with its ends and any undue pressure upon the clothes by the has its lower edge extending nearly to the bottwo rubbers. V.The suds will be considerably go tom of the suds-box. A coiled spring, 10, or agitated in the suds-box and may pass over the similar elastic spring, is secured to the outer reciprocating-rubber and under the lower edge face of this concave block, and is secured to of the same, there being asmall space between the end piece of the suds-boX, serving to draw the said lower edge and the bottom, and the the block back when it has been drawn toward suds may pass freely under the rocking rub- 95 the middle of the suds-boX. ber, so that the circulation orsplashing forward A rubber or block, 11, is pivoted with trunand back of the suds will assist inwashing the nions 12in its ends between the side pieces of clothes, together with the action ofthe rubbers. the suds-box, and the lower portion of this Having thus described my invention, I'clairn block or rubber is formed withaconvcxribbed and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the 10o 5o or corrugated face, 13, eccentric to the trun- United Statesnions and corresponding in curve to the con- 1. 1n aw'ashing-machinc, the combination of a rocking rubber having a convex face at its lower portion, a reciprocating rubber having a concave face registering with the convex face of the other rubber, arms pivoted to the ends of the rocking rubber eccentric to the trunnions of the same and tothe ends of the reciprocating rubber, and an elastic spring secured to the back of the reciprocating rubber and to the end piece of the suds-box, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In a Washingmachine, the combination of a rocking rubber having its trunnions at the middles of the ends, and having a convex face atv its lower portion eccentric to the trunnions, a reciprocating rubber having a concave face and havingend pieces sliding in the sides of the suds-box, an elastic spring secured to the back of the concave rubber and to the end piece of the suds-box, and arms pivoted to the ends of the rocking rubber eccentric to the trunnions, and having yielding and movable connections at their other ends to the end pieces of the reciprocating rubber, as and for blocks with their lower edges sliding upon the bottom of the suds-box and their upper edges sliding under the cleats, said blocks being formed with triangular recesses in their outer sides near the upper edges, a concave ribbed rubber secured with its ends in the blocks, an elastic spring secured to the back of this rubber and to the end piece of the suds-box, a rubber having trunnions at the middles of its ends pivoted between the side pieces of the sudsbox and formed with a convex ribbed face at its lower portion eccentric to the trunnions, and with recesses in thc upper portions of the ends located in said recesses, bolts, arms projecting from the upper portion of the back of the rocking rubberand having a handle connecting them, and arms pivoted to the bolts in the recesses in the ends of the rocking rubber, and having yielding springs connecting their other ends to the recessed end pieces of the reciprocating rubber, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMANUEL K. LECRONE. Vitnesses:

JONATHAN Jnssor, WALTER B. WHi'rE. 

